Monday, February 11, 2013

Ron Paul spoke with Bloomberg television and said that we are in a
currency war and we have been for decades. He noted that governments
have always competed against each other’s currencies even under Bretton
Woods. It has always been a form or protectionism and will make people
want to export more.

Dr. Paul said don’t blame countries like China and Japan just look at
the debt the U.S. is buying. There will always be currency wars. The
Bank of Japan claims it has to defend itself against deflation and
decades of slow growth.

Ron Paul noted that the Bank of Japan’s yen devaluations will
eventually lead to further price inflations that are to come. Investors
and citizens will eventually reject the yen and switch to other
currencies like dollars or Swiss francs. Then eventually people will
move to hard assets altogether as they are losing confidence in paper
assets.

Dr. Paul was asked, “Do you think protectionism will lead to a crash
in the international monetary system? He replied, “Nothing good can
come of it. Even short run trade benefits leads to a weaker economy and
higher prices. It doesn't solve the problem they won't face the truth.
That is that all governments spend too much money, there is too much
debt and they get away with it by taxing people”.

“It seems that all we have is more debt, more printing money, and
more government interventions. Governments won’t even talk cutting
things. They only want to make slight decreases of proposed increases in
their budgets!”

The Christopher Dorner saga exposes the weakness of the law enforcement
community. It gives law enforcement something to think about when
threatening Second Amendment advocates. The idea that they can descend
upon us with flashbangs and SWAT raids day after day, house after house
is a farce. Something they should seriously consider before engaging
in war on the patriotic and law-abiding people of this nation is
this: what if we decide to fight back?

It is easy for the politicians to sit up in their offices and issue
dictates down to the police to enforce, but ultimately the battle comes
between the people who refuse to obey those laws and the police required
to enforce them. It is for this reason that I have always expected the
police to be on the front lines of defending the rights of the people.
If for no other reason than to avoid being put into the unenviable
position of having to defend themselves against the people.

Line of sight radio :
In the military C-Band 500 - 1000 MHz that can be jammed with simple spark-gap radio

Satellite communication :
In the Ku-Band between 10.95 - 14.5 GHz, and the satellite can be jammed.
The Uplink-Band to the satellite is 13.75 - 14.5 GHz
The Downlink-Band from the satellite is 10.95 - 12.75 GHz

And you should jam the Uplink frequencies with a jammer directed at the satellite.

Every generation has its Pee-wee Herman. This one has Obama, for instance.Ol' Remus at woodpilereport.com

England shipped huge numbers of Irish slaves to the New World -
If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was
never a crime. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish
women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. The
settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men. These
new "mulatto" slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock, says
John Martin in this review, The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten "White" Slaves, at Global Research.

In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was set to
eliminate all of the 48 states in order to implement nine regional
governments that would operate as extensions of the federal government.
All local law enforcement would be eliminated. The plan failed.Anthony Martin at examiner.com

The Police State Railway that Americans are riding to hell -
the drug war, with its massive arrests, prosecution, and imprisonment
of people charged only with victimless crimes and its militarization of
the state and local police all over the country... This massive bloating
of police power and legalized oppression and the corresponding
suppression of individual rights have brought down to the lowest level
the threats to life, liberty, and happiness that the war on terrorism
has created.Robert Higgs at albanytribune.com (Hat tip: urbansurvival.com)

Operation Wetback of the 1950s -
President Eisenhower made self deportation work. 3 Million self
deported. But to make self deportation work, or so we are told in the
press, he had to do a very divisive, hateful, nativist, xenophobic,
bigoted, white supremacist, racist, angry old white man thing, which was
to enforce our immigration laws.Laddie, comment
3216415 at zerohedge.com

My
name is Erin, and I am reaching out in regards to the Citadel project
that you are involved in. Tim Pastore (the guy who made Deadliest
Catch, Dirty Jobs, Gold Rush: Alaska, etc) and I recently read about the
Citadel, and we'd love to have a conversation with you to learn more
about it, your involvement, etc. What you guys are doing is truly
incredible, and your goal of an independent, free community is something
we want to know more about. We
are not reporters - we create raw, honest, american television shows,
and we are very interested in this huge project.

I'd like to connect with you as soon as possible, so please feel free to email me back anytime or call me on my cellphone at ---------- or ----------.

I look forward to speaking with you, and I hope all is well.

Best Regards,

Erin

Erin,

Thanks for your interest in and support of the Citadel Project. However, my involvement is in a supporting role. We (as a group) appreciate the words of encouragement but I am not a spokesman for the Citadel, nor would I attempt to explain the myriad details involved in such an awe inspiring endeavor.

My associates and I are Militiamen, in the old sense of the word.

And
as such we see this project as a chance to pass freedom on to the next
generation in the form of a secure, self supporting bastion of Liberty. Our group here is a small part of a much larger whole. The
majority of whom are decidedly NOT Militia oriented. The project
includes Constitutional scholars, 2nd Amendment Advocates,
Homesteaders & Homeschoolers, Libertarians, Traditionalists,
Patriots and generally old fashioned down home Americans.

It is my understanding that the Founders
and Elders of the project are not currently engaging with media or
"entertainment" assets. You may contact them directly at the website
linked below. As for me and mine here, we have no interest or desire to be involved
with ANY TV production. We have turned down multiple requests for
interviews and film projects. Without complete contracted editorial and content control I see no reason to change that policy.

this is 55six from Liberty and Lead. I have been locked out of my blog
by Wordpress after being unable to access it for a while last week. DOD
was all over my stat counter during that time. My email has been
tampered with too. Please post about this in case I go missing or
something. This is not a joke.

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He warned me about this possibly happening last week and I recommended to him that it would be better to post this information now.

While other members of Congress are hosting gun-control advocates for
Tuesday's State of the Union address, Rep. Steve Stockman has given
one of his visitor's gallery tickets to Ted Nugent, the conservative
gun-rights supporter.

"I am excited to have a patriot like Ted
Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama,"
Mr. Stockman said in a statement announcing the choice. "After the
address I'm sure Ted will have plenty to say."

I’ve written before about independence movements in Europe. Not only
are we going to see the European Union crack up and fall apart in the
near future (thought timing this kind of thing is virtually impossible)
but we find that regions within European nations are themselves ready to
secede from the “mother country.” Probably the most well known of these
is Catalonia, which is the economic power house for Spain, but has its
own language and is tired of being drained by the rest. In Italy, we
have the growing Venetian independence party wanting to re-establish the
Republic of Venice. This is an exciting time to watch the news and
possibly see more manageable and prosperous countries emerge!

Closer to home, we also have Scotland seriously considering
separating from Britain and no longer being part of the United Kingdom.
How likely is such secession? Likely enough that the government of Great
Britain has begun making threats.

“The pro-independence Scottish National
Party (SNP) that runs Scotland’s devolved government plans to hold a
referendum on the politically sensitive and emotionally charged subject
next year, and has played down the impact of a ‘Yes’ vote on Scotland’s
international status. But the 57-page legal opinion – drafted for the
British government by two leading independent experts on international
law – said the implications could be far-reaching. The overwhelming
weight of international precedent suggested Scotland would be legally
deemed a ‘new state,’ it said – a scenario that would force it to
re-apply to join international bodies such as the EU, the United Nations
and NATO. ‘If Scotland became independent, only the “remainder of the
UK” would automatically continue to exercise the same rights,
obligations and powers under international law as the UK currently does,
and would not have to re-negotiate existing treaties or re-apply for
membership of international organizations,’ the government said.”

I can only hope that the Scottish people reply, “You promise?”

Why would Scotland want to be part of NATO? Do the Scottish people
feel left out and deprived at the thought of not having a role in
supporting Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in Libya, Syria, and
elsewhere? I can’t imagine how it could be considered attractive to
support troops all over North Africa and the Middle East. Why on earth
would anyone feel threatened by the possibility of losing NATO
membership? Why would they even bother to re-apply?

Most
of eastern North Carolina lay open to the Union troops from early 1862,
and by degrees they stripped the entire region of everything of value
that was moveable and whole shiploads of booty were sent north. New
Bern-native Edward Stanly was appointed military governor by Lincoln in
late May 1862 and sent to occupied Morehead City to govern his subjects,
but even he lost hope of restoring the Tarheel State to the Union after
watching shiploads of loot heading northward. He resigned his
appointment a year later.

Stanly
wrote: "Had the war in North Carolina been conducted by soldiers who
were Christians and gentlemen, the State would have long ago rebelled
against rebellion. But instead of that, what was done? Thousands and
thousands of dollars worth of property were conveyed North. Libraries,
pianos, carpets, mirrors, family portraits, everything in short, that
could be removed, was stolen by men abusing flagitious slave holders and
preaching liberty, justice and civilisation.

I
was informed that one regiment of abolitionists had conveyed North more
than $40,000 worth of property. They literally robbed the cradle and
the grave. Family burial vaults were broken open for robbery; and in one
instance (the fact was published in a Boston newspaper and admitted to
me by an officer of high position in the army) a vault was entered, a
metallic coffin removed, and the remains cast out that those of a dead
[northern] soldier might be put in the place.” (Hamilton, pp. 94-95)

Colonel William Lamb wrote from Wilmington in mid-1862:

“Northern
emissaries had kindled the flames of disloyalty in the East, and 18
November 1861, a convention of delegates claiming to represent
forty-five counties met at [enemy-occupied] Hatteras, repudiated
secession, announced their loyalty to the [Northern] Union, and named
one Marble Nash Taylor, Provisional Governor of North Carolina. The
conduct of these Tories, or Buffaloes as they were called, was a source
of annoyance to the patriots, but only served to strengthen their
loyalty to their country.” (Clark’s regiments, pp. 629-631)

North Carolina Governor Zeb Vance wrote to Stanly in late October 1862:

“Your
proposition [of discussing surrender] is based on the supposition that
there is baseness in North Carolina sufficient to induce her people to
abandon their confederates and leave them to suffer alone all the
horrors of this unnatural war, for the sake of securing for themselves, a
mistake which I could scarcely have supposed anyone so well acquainted
with the character of our people as your self could have committed.” In
a second letter, Vance “told Stanly how his name was execrated and
cursed and that “damnable atrocities” were committed daily almost under
his eyes.” (Champion of Personal Freedom, p. 200)

"Stanly,
the renegade, the traitor governor, appointed by Mr. Lincoln to rule
his native State, finds the way of the transgressor hard. He has stopped
the Negro schools as being contrary to the Statute Law of North
Carolina, by which he has offended his Northern masters, but with a
strange inconsistency he ignores the fact (of which Mr. [George Edmund]
Badger has reminded him however) that his being here, as Gov, is as
much an infringement on our rights, for the Laws of N.C. provide for an
election of the Gov by the people. He said that if there was one man in
N.C. whom he regarded more than another, one man whom he loved, that man
was Richard S. Donnell, & yet the first sight which greeted him on
stepping ashore at New Berne was the coffin of Mr. Donnell's mother with
her name & the date of her birth & death cut on it, waiting
shipment to NY, her remains having been thrown out to give place to the
body of a Yankee officer! Such is our foe.”

by HK EdgertonPresident Southern Heritage 411hk.edgerton@gmail.com

Mr. Chairman, Honored members of this Committee, and those present. I have placed before you to peruse; a copy of the Historic March Across Dixie Pictorial Journal. It is a very important vehicle that is at the forefront of breaking down the Wall of persona non grata (being personally unacceptable or unwelcome) of the Confederate Battle Flag. And that of the Honorable Beings who stitched it together, carried it into battle, shrouded the bodies of their loved, and who placed it atop the buildings that governed those who deeply believed in giving love to their fellow man, as was proven when one of the Almighty Gods' ultimate test was thrust upon them; " The Economic Institution of Southern Slavery".

General Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of those Honorable Beings, and unquestionably by his actions; a friend to the African of his time, be they freed or indentured. There are many Black folks here in Memphis who owe their very existence to the kind General who answered a knock at his door from a plea of African whose wife had just been sold to cover his masters debts, and the General found himself in the saddle, buying back a slave that he would never use, just to bring peace to a kindly soul.

A man that had his horse shot from under him many times in battle, with never a fret because he knew that one of those forty plus Black men who went off to war with him; had his back when he hit the ground. And as the shirt before you reads in his own words: These boys stayed with me... and better Confederates did not live."

There are those like Commercial Appeal Reporter Wendi C. Thomas who write calumny (false and malicious accusation) about the General, with the intent of exciting from the public a level of hate that is a danger to public safety. The United States Congress exonerated General Nathan Bedford Forrest at their Klan Tribunal, of any crimes associated with the Klan or Fort Pillow. And I never heard her mention one time the terror heaped upon the citizens of Tennessee and the South by the Union League, be they Red, Yellow, Brown, Black or White. Or that it was the Klan during the time of Forrest that broke the back of reconstruction in the South; 12 years of terror for all Southerners, with the exception of the scalawags who climbed into bed with the Carpetbaggers, and Northern appointed military Governors and their tribunals that stole and raped and murdered all the way to the bank.

And never to forget in closing the North plan to divide Southern Whites and Southern Blacks from each other, starting first with the teaching of the Almighty God by Southern Ministers like the Honorable R.L. Dabney of Prince Edward County Virginia who spelled out in his famous letter to the head of the so called Freedman Bureau in September of 1865, all the things that the South had done to try and do right by the African people held in bondage, and all the things that the Yankees should do, and stop doing to a hapless people( vagrancy laws and entrapment of the company store to name a few) now that they had all the money and national resources fully in their command.

Even Dr. Martin Luther King could not be persuaded to attack the Southern Cross or those who fought and served under it;" sons of former slaves, sons of former slave owners, and far too many that were neither". I am the immediate Past President of the Asheville Branch of the NAACP, and at no time do I recall that David Duke or any leader of the KU Klux Klan, invited by that organization, or for that matter the Commander In Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, or the President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy invited to give the Keynote Speech at their National Convention. However, here was the Pole Bearers of Memphis, Tennessee, a forefront of organizations like the NAACP, inviting the General to do just that. The first and only White man to be given that high Honor. If it makes any difference to a woman that hates as Ms. White does, have her read that accounting that sums up who General Forrest truly was.

A monument is defined as a lasting reminder in remembrance of a person or event, and it is the duty of those who follow to see that this mandate is protected. Political correctness and the lies and distortions of those who hate it are no excuse to do otherwise. As much as I deplore the likes of Lincoln and his son having a monument of their likeness at the Tredegar Iron Works in Virginia, or on the Capitol Mall in Washington, I cannot dig the war criminal up, or that of President Grant who owned slaves as he entered the White House as the lies ran forward to the world that his Commander In Chief Lincoln had him fight a war to end the economic institution of slavery. Good help was hard to find was his excuse.

We here in the South need to embrace our history and heroes of the past while searching out truths not told by those who took a criminal road of Total Warfare upon defenseless men, women, and children. Thank you for having me, and I hope that you will take a path that can lead to a better community and will earn the respect of many across this land who call themselves Southern, and the many of the North who believe in a sense of fair play.

Gen. Forrest is the subject of a very old hoax that has been
around since the 1860s. There is no truth to the rumor that he
was ever a
'leader of the kkk' or that he was a racist.

When he was called to
appear at the
1871 US Congressional Committee that investigated the charges of his
rumored
involvement with that group, he was building a railroad with most of his
workers
being blacks, whom he paid better wages than other companies were paying
whites. He worked to promote civil rights for blacks, and for all men;
his speech to the
Pole Bearers is proof of that.

In 1871, Gen. Forrest was called before a congressional Committee. Forrest testified
before Congress personally over four hours .

Here's part of the transcript of Forrest's testimony to that
1871 hearing:

"The primary accusation before this board is that Gen. Forrest was a founder of
The Klan, and its first Grand Wizard, So it shall address those accusations
first."

Forrest took the witness stand June 27th,1871. Building a railroad in Tennessee
at the time, Gen Forrest stated he 'had done more , probably than any other man,
to suppress these violence and difficulties and keep them down, had been
vilified and abused in the (news) papers, and accused of things I never did
while in the army and since. He had nothing to hide, wanted to see this matter
settled, our country quiet once more, and our people united and working together
harmoniously.'

Asked if he knew of any men or combination of men violating the law or
preventing the execution of the law: Gen Forest answered emphatically, 'No.' (A
Committee member brought up a 'document' suggesting otherwise, the 1868 newspaper
article from the "Cincinnati Commercial". That was their "evidence", a
news
article.)

Forrest stated ...any information he had on the Klan was information given to
him by others.

Sen. Scott asked, 'Did you take any steps in organizing an association or
society under that prescript (Klan constitution)?'

Forrest: 'I DID NOT' Forrest further stated that '..he thought the Organization
(Klan) started in middle Tennessee, although he did not know where. It is said I
started it.'

Asked by Sen. Scott, 'Did you start it, Is that true?'

Forrest: 'No Sir, it is not.'

Asked if he had heard of the Knights of the white Camellia, a Klan-like
organization in Louisiana,

Forrest: 'Yes, they were reported to be there.'

Senator: 'Were you a member of the order of the white Camellia?'

Forrest: 'No Sir, I never was a member of the Knights of the white Camellia.'

Asked about the Klan :

Forrest: 'It was a matter I knew very little about. All my efforts were
addressed to stop it, disband it, and prevent it....I was trying to keep it down
as much as possible.'

Forrest: 'I talked with different people that I believed were connected to it,
and urged the disbandment of it, that it should be broken up.'"

The following article appeared in the New York times June 27th, "Washington,
1871. Gen Forrest was before the Klu Klux Committee today, and his examination
lasted four hours. After the examination, he remarked than the committee treated
him with much courtesy and respect."

Gen. Forrest was NOT the 'first Grand Wizard of the KKK'. For the correct
information on that, here are the actual documented facts :

Actually, the "kuklos" was started in Pulaski, Tennessee, just before Christmas
1865, by six ex-Confederate officers, and was a sort of social club for
Confederate officers.

Nathan
Bedford Forrest had absolutely nothing to do with the founding of the Ku Klux
Klan.

And even within the history of the Klan, differences must be noted between the
Klan of the 1860s and the Klan of today.

The KKK that was reorganized in 1915 had a reputation as a bigoted and
sometimes violent organization, fueled by hate and ignorance and
thriving on
fear and intimidation. But that wasn't always the case. The original
KKK of the
1860s was organized as a fun club, or social club, for Confederate
veterans. Many historians agree that if a YMCA had been available in
the town of Pulaski,
Tenn., the KKK might never have existed.

On Dec. 24, 1865, six young Confederate veterans met in the law office of Judge
Thomas M. Jones, near the courthouse square in Pulaski. Their names were James
R. Crowe, Calvin E. Jones, John B. Kennedy, John C. Lester, Frank O. McCord, and
Richard B. Reed. All had been CSA officers and were lawyers, except Kennedy and
McCord, who had each served as a private in the Confederate army. The meeting
resulted in the idea of forming a social club, an 1860s version of the VFW or
American Legion.

Notice, Gen. Forrest was not present at the founding meeting.

Their number quickly grew, and in meetings that followed, the men selected a
name based on the Greek word "kuklos" meaning circle, from which they derived
the name Ku Klux.

Perhaps bowing to their Scotch-Irish ancestry, and to add
alliteration to the name, they included "clan," spelled with a K. And so, quite
innocently, a new social club called the Ku Klux Klan was created to provide
recreation for Confederate veterans.

McCord, whose family owned the town's weekly newspaper, the Pulaski Citizen,
printed mysterious-sounding notices of meetings and club activities. As other
newspapers picked up his stories about the Klan, word spread and the
organization grew.

When the war ended, Forrest was virtually broke, having spent most of his
estimated pre-war fortune of $1.5 million outfitting his troops. He was spending
his time between business ventures in Memphis and his farm in Mississippi.
Organizations such as the Klan were farthest from his mind.

After the War, General Forrest made a speech to the Memphis City
Council (then called the Board of Aldermen). In this speech he said that there
was no reason that the black man could not be doctors, store clerks, bankers, or
any other job equal to whites. They were part of our community and should be
involved and employed as such just like anyone else. In another speech to
Federal authorities, Forrest said that many of the ex-slaves were skilled
artisans and needed to be employed and that those skills needed to be taught to
the younger workers. If not, then the next generation of blacks would have no
skills and could not succeed and would become dependent on the welfare of
society.

Forrest's words went unheeded. The Memphis & Selma Railroad was
organized by Forrest after the war to help rebuild the South's transportation
and to build the 'new South'. Forrest took it upon himself to hire blacks as
architects, construction engineers and foremen, train engineers and conductors,
and other high level jobs. In the North, blacks were prohibited from holding
such jobs.

When Forrest was 'elected' Grand Wizard of the Klan in mid-1867 at the Maxwell
House Hotel in Nashville, he wasn't even in town. He was 'elected' in absentia. The best scholarly research shows that Forrest never "led the Klan," he never
"rode with" the Klan, nor did he ever own any Klan paraphernalia. It
has been speculated by many that the reason for his name being submitted for the
election was partly a prank, and mostly to discredit him for his work toward
black equality such as his hiring practices for his railroad company.
Forrest was a civil rights pioneer.

The only known order that Forrest issued using his famous name and perceived
authority was for the KKK to disband in 1869, which it finally did in
1871. And even that order was written by his longtime friend and former
chief artillery officer, Capt. John Watson Morton.

So there you have it. There is no reason to think of Gen. Forrest with anything
but admiration and respect. If anyone still thinks badly of Gen. Forrest, that
is a reflection of their own bad character, and does not take away from Gen.
Forrest's outstanding contributions to humanity.

Always remember, the "kuklos" of the late 1860s wasn't even remotely like the
US-flag-waving racist mob of the early 20th century.

Forrest's Speech to the
Pole Bearers

Forrest (1821-1877) was a famous Southern military
leader, a brilliant strategist and a gentleman who made his mark in what
Southerners call the War of Northern Aggression. To paint every general on the losing side as a
racist simply because you don't like the South is a travesty that the facts of
history will knock down time and time again. Yes, Forrest was a great general in an unpopular
war, but when the war ended, Forrest accepted the outcome and then sought
reconciliation with those around him. He worked diligently to rebuild the New South and
earnestly to generate employment for black Southerners. His leadership and character did not fade because
the South had been defeated. Instead he used who he was, accepted the outcome,
and used his fame and talents for others' good. At an early convention of the Pole-Bearers, whose
beginnings prefaced the NAACP, it was Forrest who was invited to speak. History
records no disrespect at the meeting; instead both the Pole-Bearers and Forrest
behaved with mutual respect and decorum.

He was the guest speaker, and
historically the first white invited to be the keynote speaker. Forrest was asked because the group was said to
have wanted to extend union and peace to others, but what happened in further
actions was even more important. On July 4, 1875 the event began with a young black
woman, the daughter of a leader of the Pole-Bearers, offering him a small
bouquet of flowers signifying the peace intended. Forrest received the flowers and then spoke from
his heart to the gathering. His actions and recorded words testify that this
gentleman was in truth a civil rights advocate, a believer in the rights of all
people. Among the statements he made that day: "I
came here with jeers of some white people who think what I am doing is wrong.
We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live in the same
land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters. I
believe I can exert some influence ... and shall do all in my power to elevate
every man and to depress none. I want to elevate you to take positions in law
offices, in stores, on farms and wherever you are capable of going." He apologized for having no formal speech, but
continued, " Many things have been said about me that are wrong, and which black
and white persons here who stood by me through the war can contradict."

"I feel
that you are free men, I am a free man, and we can do as we please. I came here
as a friend and whenever I can serve any of you I will do so. We have one union,
one flag, one country; therefore, let us stand together. Although we differ in
color, we should not differ in sentiment."

"Do your
duty as citizens, and if any are oppressed, I will be your friend. I thank you
for the flowers, and assure you that I am with you in heart and hand."

It should be noted that both black and white
soldiers fought under Forrest against the North. Many were in attendance at this
Memphis address. When Forrest's cavalry abdicated in May of 1865, the muster
included 65 black soldiers. Forrest described those gentlemen as soldiers amid
his finest. Yes, Forrest was a Southern general whose war
strategies were unmatched. Yes, the war that began over states rights brought
forth a welcome transition to the civil rights we are so thankful for today.
For more info on Gen. Forrest, see
Memphis'
first White Civil Rights AdvocateThe transcript of the 1871 Congressional Committee can be found
here.
Pages 3 to 41 contain Gen. Forrest's testimony.

This link
connects to the record of Gen. Forrest's testimony concerning the 'ku klux' and
the state of affairs in portions of Georgia and Tennessee in which Gen. Forrest
had traveled. There are only two mentions of Fort Pillow in this link,
each time it is mentioned only in passing, not in depth.

We are still
looking for the rumored transcript of the committee in which Gen. Sherman supposedly questions Gen.
Forrest; it is probably an urban legend. Sherman was not a member of
congress in 1871.

Many thanks
to the Library of Congress for providing this link.

As for Fort
Pillow, Gen. Forrest received many requests from residents around the fort
asking him to come stop the Union soldiers from looting and pillaging the area
and from committing atrocities (murders, rapes, random shootings, etc.) upon the
people. When the battle started, many of the Union troops were drunk
and refused to surrender when the battle was clearly lost. Afterward, Gen.
Forrest had the most severely wounded Union soldiers transferred to a Union
gunboat.

The
Yankee newspapers created all sorts of lies to cover up the atrocities committed
by the Union troops and their refusal to abide by the terms of surrender, so
they invented tales of butchery by Forrest's troops. After learning all
the facts of the battle and the Union atrocities committed in the weeks before
the battle, one has to admire the restraint of the Confederates. The Union
Congressional "investigation" of 1864 was a smear job.

For
a full accounting of the Fort Pillow battle, read "Confederate Victories At Fort
Pillow" by Edward F. Williams III, published 1973 by Historic Trails, Inc.,
Memphis, TN and "The Campaigns of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and of
Forrest's Cavalry", originally published in 1868 and reprinted in 1996.
Both books can probably be found at Abes Books.

Raeford, N.C. — Hoke County authorities
said Monday that they are searching for two people in connection with
the attempted robbery of a Raeford business in which one of the
suspected robbers was killed.

Several people entered All American
Mattress and Furniture, at 9734 Aberdeen Road, at about 8:30 p.m.
Friday, armed with a rifle and brass knuckles, authorities said.

The
business owner, whose name wasn't released, was able to disarm the
robber with the rifle, and during the struggle over the gun, 16-year-old
David Frame was shot and killed, authorities said.

The Navy SEAL Team Six "shooter" who put two
rounds into Osama bin Laden's forehead May 2, 2011, is jobless,
struggling to pay basic bills and has been offered no protection from
the retaliation he anticipates from al Qaeda, according to his first
interview.Only described as "the shooter" by Esquire,
he also charges that the SEAL who recently wrote a book about the raid,
celebrated in the new movie Zero Dark Thirty, glossed over the
shooter's role in promoting his own shot at the corpse of bin Laden.

The long article in the upcoming magazine said
that the shooter came forward to talk about the raid to bring attention
to the lack of support offered by the Pentagon or administration for
troops once they come home.

“This affords CHL holders, one of the most lawful
group of citizens in our state, to be able exercise that 2nd amendment
right to go on to the campus of higher learning to be able defend
themselves and protect their right to self-preservation, God forbid,
some act of evil be perpetrated,” Birdwell said.

According to the Heritage
Foundation’s top policy expert, Robert Rector, either one of the two
amnesties being proposed by the U.S. Senate “Gang-of-Eight” and
President Obama would cost U.S. taxpayers trillions of dollars over
the next decade. Based on Rector’s previous cost estimate of
the defeated 2007 McCain-Kennedy Amnesty, either new amnesty proposal
will cost taxpayers more than $2.5 trillion in increased Medicare and
Social Security costs ALONE. This is after accounting for any increases
in tax revenues paid in by amnestied workers. There are also other formidable
costs associated with amnesty.

Are our annual fiscal deficits and the national
debt not already high enough? Are we a ship of fools? We risk
enormous catastrophe by keeping politically correct silence on the costs
of amnesty.

McCain admits that the Gang-of-Eight Amnesty
Proposal is almost identical with his 2007 amnesty proposal, and the Washington Times has confirmed this by laying out the two plans
page by page. Rector is now researching the likely cost of a 2013 amnesty
and believes either amnesty proposal will far exceed the 2007 estimate
due to larger illegal immigrant numbers and inflation since 2007. Obama’s
amnesty is the more sweeping and costly of the two potentially nation-destroying
proposals.

I cannot find anywhere that the sponsors of the
2007 Amnesty made any realistic estimate of its costs that were released
to the media or public. The degree of stealth in hiding the cost of
the 2007 Amnesty has only recently been surpassed by Obamacare. Don’t
expect things to change in 2013. Expect emotional, not factual, emphasis.
The public will be in serious need of a horse manure detector.

I am sure the proponents of these amnesties will
not mention that amnesties always cause more illegal immigration. As
Senator Sessions (R, AL) has pointed out, the record of the 1987 Amnesty
indicates that over a 20-year period we can expect two to three additional
illegal immigrants for each amnesty given. Amnesties beget more illegal
immigrants and more amnesties. The annual net fiscal drain from the
estimated 11.5 million illegal immigrants now here is over $100 billion
per year. Are we willing to see another $200 to $300 billion annual
fiscal drain? And that does not count the huge negative impact of displaced
American workers, downward pressure on American wages, and difficult-to-quantify
factors such as increased costs of educating bilingual students and
higher crime rates associated with illegal immigrants.

Rector estimates that 75 to 80 percent of illegal
immigrants have no more than a high school education. They are considerably
less skilled than the average American worker. In past generations,
immigrants were actually more skilled than the average American worker.
Workers with low skills and less than a high school education draw more
welfare expenses than taxes paid. Rector’s 2007 analysis showed that
non-high school graduates used about $20,000 more in government benefits
than the $10,000 in taxes paid during their working life. Rector expects
that this gap has increased and will make amnesty costs even higher.

Should Republicans drink the amnesty chalice?
Many are saying that they must favor amnesty or continue to alienate
Hispanic voters, who were 10 percent of the total electorate in 2012.
From 1980 to 2012, Hispanic voters gave an average of only 31 percent
support for Republican presidential candidates. The high mark was 40
percent for George W. Bush in 2004. McCain, a primary sponsor of the
2007 amnesty attempt, got only 31 percent of their vote in 2008. The
1987 Amnesty signed by Reagan performed no miracles for George H. W.
Bush in 1988. The elder Bush got only 30 percent of the Hispanic vote,
down from Reagan’s 37 percent in 1984.

Reagan, by the way, was reluctant to sign the
1987 Amnesty. He was persuaded by more liberal Republicans that it was
a trade for the stronger border security and workplace enforcement necessary
to shut down most illegal immigration. But these promises were broken,
and illegal immigration raged out of control thereafter. Asked what
was the biggest mistake in his presidency, Reagan told his close friend
and Attorney General, Ed Meese, that it was signing the 1987 Amnesty.

Border security is necessary but not sufficient
for immigration control. Workplace enforcement is absolutely necessary
and more effective.

Will agreeing to amnesty turn many Hispanics
to the Republican Party? No! Hispanic voters place social-welfare legislation
in far higher priority than amnesty. As many academic studies have shown,
what they vote for is generous government paid healthcare and social
benefits. Amnesty means more Democrats and bigger social spending.

A Pew poll in May 2012 of over 1,503 potential
voters indicated that 49 percent of Hispanic voters wanted to expand
Obamacare—the highest support of any ethnic group. Only 26 percent
of whites wanted to expand it. A total of 69 percent of Hispanics wanted
to expand it or leave it as is. This was revealingly close to
the 71 percent who voted for Obama in the November election. A
Fox News exit poll revealed that Obamacare was the most telling issue
motivating Obama voters. Ninety-two percent of those wanting to expand
Obamacare voted for Obama. Obama ran ads in both English and Spanish.
His Spanish ads emphasized Obamacare, not immigration issues. His English
language ads did not mention Obamcare or amnesty directly.

Voting for amnesty will not gain Hispanic votes
for Republicans. It will only make conservative voters who normally
vote Republican stay at home. Republicans cannot out-liberal the Democrats
on immigration, healthcare, or anything else. Time Magazine, indisputably
one of the most powerful liberal political influences in America, hasGang-of-Eight member, Senator Marco Rubio (R, FL) on its prestigious
cover this week, calling him the Republican Party’s “savior.”
Are we a ship of fools? Amnesty is Republican suicide, and the Democrats
and liberal media hope enough wobbly and clueless Republicans can be
found to stampede their party into drinking a deadly potion from which
they could never recover.

Keep flooding legislators with calls, faxes, and emails And then come pack the Committee hearing room on Wednesday!

This is the worst threat to NJ gun rights in history Your efforts matter most right now!

Buses to Trenton on Wednesday are being planned, But you must register immediately so Arrangements can be finalized.

As reported in our last alert, the New Jersey Assembly Law &
Public Safety Committee is scheduled to hold hearings on a package of 24
gun bills on Wednesday, February 13 beginning at 10 a.m. in the State
House Annex, Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, Trenton, NJ (directions here).

The worst of these bills have the effect of banning all
rifle-barreled shotguns, numerous rifles and handguns, most rifle
ammunition, and magazines that hold over 10 rounds.Ammunition sales
would be severely restricted, logged and reported to the State Police,
and internet and catalog sales would be banned.

Unaccountable health practitioners (including nurses, social workers,
and marriage counselors!) would be turned into spies with the power to
effectively suspend Second Amendment rights and have firearms seized.
And the exercise of the Constitutional right to own firearms would be
conditioned on proof of having firearms safety training. And that’s just
the beginning (see detailed bill analysis here).

Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer who is accused of
murdering three people and threatening to continue his vengeful
killings, has issued a statement that claims he has no connection to the
Southern California murders, and he is falsely accused.

The statement was received by a local news organization via fax from a Cabo San Lucas hotel early Saturday.

“It’s not me!,” Dorner says in the statement. “I have been out of
town on vacation and just heard the news that I am blamed for killings I
did not and never would commit. This “manifesto” the police are using
against me is just a few ideas for a screenplay I am working on with my
former colleague Mark Fuhrman. Tell my mom I’m OK. Once again… the cops
have it all wrong…. I will soon be in touch.”

With
that news the massive dragnet laid out for the fugitive ex-cop,
more than 10,000 officers, abandoned their fruitless search in the
snowy, densely forested mountains around Big Bear Lake
and moved across the Mexican border, and are headed to Cabo San Lucas at
the tip of Baja, California.

“This could be another one of the crazy gunman’s tricks,” said an
off duty security guard. “More than likely he is holed up in a bunker
and just sitting in front of a television watching the cops chase their
tails. If he believes the cops embarrassed him…. I’l bet he wants to pay
them back. He wants them to look like fools.”

On January 7, 2013, President Obama announced his nomination of
Republican former senator of Nebraska Chuck Hagel to replace outgoing
Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense.

The Secretary of Defense is second (only to the President) in the
military chain of command and directly oversees the Department of
Defense and the nation’s armed forces. This makes the selection of this
cabinet-level position of the utmost importance concerning national
security, thus requiring a scrupulous vetting of the nominee.

A careful examination of Chuck Hagel and his record in the Senate
reveals that he is more than just unfit for the position but is also
likely to severely debilitate or compromise United States national
security.

As a member of the Senate, Hagel voted in the following manner on Defense issues:

NAY on separate barracks for males and females in basic training

YES to kill an amendment that called for sanctions on commercial fronts of the Communist Chinese military

YES in support of China’s membership in the World Trade Organization

YES on the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty to reduce U.S. nuclear stockpiles in parity with Russia

On May 14, 1998, Sen. Hagel voted to table (kill) the Hutchinson
Amendment (S.Amdt.2387) to the National Defense Authorization Act of
1999. This amendment would have required the President of the United
States to “compile a list of persons who are Communist Chinese military
companies and who are operative directly or indirectly in the United
States or any of its territories and possessions,” and to “publish the
list of such persons in the Federal Register.”

The
amendment would have also given the President the authority to invoke
sanctions against front corporations of China’s People’s Liberation
Army, which is the military arm of Communist Party of China. Although
the amendment and bill passed the Senate, it was subsequently referred
to the House Committee on National Security, where no action was taken
on it, and thus it failed to pass Congress.

In addition to his voting record above, in 2000 Senator Hagel endorsed
President Bill Clinton’s decision to “not deploy a limited national
missile defense system.” Hagel explained that missile defense “must move
forward on four parallel tracks – technology, Congress, our allies, and
the Russians.”

While Hagel believes that a U.S. missile defense system should only be
deployed with the cooperation of Russia, he does not consider such
cooperation from Russia as important when it comes to reducing nuclear
weapons. He has called for “sharply reducing the number of U.S. nuclear
weapons, possibly without equivalent cuts by Russia,” according to the Associated Press.

Hagel is also an advocate of the complete elimination of all nuclear
weapons from the face the planet and has worked with Global Zero, an
organization dedicated to the same goal. If confirmed, Hagel would be
the first incoming Secretary of Defense to be on record calling for the
reduction and eventual abolition of the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

Hagel’s soft stance on Communist China and Russia and advocacy for total nuclear disarmament has earned him recent words of praise from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The CPUSA’s official newspaper People’s World
described Hagel as one who does “represent the more sober elements who
have called in our national discourse for rejection of the old cold war
tactics, the unilateralism and the continual push for wars all over the
world.”

Joe Wendlend, the editor of the CPUSA’s theoretical journal Political Affairs, described Hagel as a “real Republican maverick,” in an article published on June 2, 2008. Past issues of Political Affairs
have touted Hagel, along with some Democratic senators, for opposing
the Iraq War and supporting immigration reform, or amnesty.

While acknowledging Hagel as a “conservative Republican,” Bennis wrote,
“At the end of the day, this isn’t about Hagel versus anybody. This is
about what President Obama is signaling by his nomination of Hagel as
Secretary of Defense....” She further explained, “Obama is not prepared
to allow either the pro-Israeli lobbies or the hard-core
neoconservatives, in and outside of Washington, to determine whom he
could and could not choose as Secretary of Defense….”

Bennis went on to applaud Hagel for his past remarks about the Defense
budget. “And then there’s the Pentagon budget. Hagel has called it
'bloated,' pretty amazing for a future Secretary of Defense.… [A]
Pentagon chief who actually believes his agency’s budget should be cut —
that’s new.” Her endorsement of Hagel concluded:

Standing to the left of President Obama’s center-right military policy
is not a very high bar. But again — standing up to AIPAC, the defense
industry (and members of Congress accountable to them) and the
still-powerful neocons makes the Hagel appointment a good move for
Obama. And it gives the rest of us a basis to push much farther to end
the wars, to close the bases, to cut the Pentagon funding, to tax the
military profiteers.

This Institute for Policy Studies’ endorsement of Hagel is significant considering that Secretary Panetta also had ties with the IPS
during his early years in Congress. It should be noted that during the
Cold War era, both the IPS and the Communist Party USA acted as front
organizations for the KGB and the Soviet Union. Even today, the IPS
continues to work with Marxists within the United States to bring about
their desired brand of social changes.

Phyllis Bennis also carries communist affiliations of her own. She was a
former member of the pro-Soviet Line of March, which was an “Oakland
based Maoist organization founded in 1970,” according to KeyWiki’s online database
of communists, socialists, and Marxist subversives. In 2008, Bennis was
voted to the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice, where
she worked alongside CPUSA leaders Judith LeBlanc and Libero Della
Piana.

United for Peace and Justice is also listed on the IPS website as one of its “Partner Organizations.”
Another IPS “Partner Organization” of note is the George Soros-funded
Ploughshares Fund, which has Chuck Hagel as a board member. Hagel shares
membership on the Ploughshares board with:

John Hoyt, who also serves on Organizers’ Forum Board of the Democratic Socialists of America-run magazine Social Policy

Cynthia Ryan, who has also served on the board of Van Jones’ Green For All.

Kennette Benedict, the Executive Director & Publisher of the leftist anti-military Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

David Holloway, former member of the Board of Editors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

On January 9, 2013, the Ploughshares Fund applauded and congratulated
President Obama’s decision to nominate Hagel as Defense Secretary. The
Ploughshares Fund, like Global Zero and the IPS, also advocates vast
cuts to military defense spending and the reduction of U.S. nuclear
weapons, without an adequate missile defense system in place to defend
the country from potential ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)
attack.

Considering his voting record, affiliations, and key endorsements,
Hagel is unfit for the responsibilities expected of a Secretary of
Defense and his nomination may have grave implications with regards to
the defense of our country and the very policies that affect the brave
men and women of our nation’s armed forces.

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There were two extraordinary disclosures in Thursday's testimony of
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey
before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

One is that there was no communication between them and Barack Obama or
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the seven hours of Sept. 11, 2012,
when Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans
were attacked and murdered in Benghazi.

This is a vivid contrast with those photos we've seen of the president
and his leading advisers watching the video of the attack on Osama bin
Laden.

At a 5 p.m. meeting, when it was first known that Stevens was under
attack, Obama did issue Panetta and Dempsey a directive to do whatever
they could to protect him. And then left the matter, in Panetta's words,
"up to us."

After the meeting, according to White House records, Obama did have a
one-hour phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, a phone call The Weekly Standard editor William Kristol has
called "non-urgent, politically useful."

But he apparently wasn't curious about what was happening in Benghazi.
He wasn't too concerned either the next morning, when after the first
murder of a U.S. ambassador in 33 years he jetted off on a four-hour
ride to a campaign event in Las Vegas. I don't think you have to be a
Republican partisan to consider that unseemly.

"I have not yet read Dorner’s Manifesto in detail, but if he is in fact threatening the Nomenklatura [political,
police, media, and celebrity]; he has indeed found the Achilles heel of
the entire systemic falsehood that our society has become. All of them
are used to and dependent upon there being no Consequences for any
actions they take. Deserved or not in this particular case; Consequences
that cannot be lied away, bought off, or blocked by fellow members of
the Nomenklaturameans that they are as lost as the citizens who have found out that they have been and are being lied to.

The maintenance
of control in a less than free society is absolutely dependent on the
active cooperation of those being controlled. In the main, it is because
they cannot conceive that the powers-that-be would do something THAT
outrageous, so they do what they are told. It is a rehash, but here is
what Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in the first chapter of his history of
the Soviet slave labor/death camps, “The GULAG Archepelago”

“And how we
burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if
every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest,
had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye
to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in
Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had
not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of
the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had
understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the
downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers,
pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly
have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding
all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness
of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that
happened afterward.”

Once people
lose, if not faith and belief in those who would oppress them, then fear
of the consequences of resisting -v- the consequences of submission;
then there are not enough guards, police, or State Security personnel in
the world to protect every member of the Nomenklatura.
And they know it, and they will turn on each other seeking either the
resources to try to protect themselves or trying to flee. And their
“Newspeak” system will crumble before the realization of truth.

Dorner may well
be, and almost surely is, as mentally f-ed up as a football bat. But
the panic he is sowing is because for a limited set of the Nomenklatura, he is the personified reappearance of “Consequences”. And of a judgment that they fear to face.

Above I repeated a citation of Solzhenitsyn. I will repeat myself again, and mention something I have contended here before.

We did not
become a country on July 4, 1776. It was earlier, and the time and place
can be pinned down with the uttermost exactitude. The Continental
Congress ratified with words, what had been made manifest with deeds.

On April 19,
1775 about 700 British regulars, about half Grenadiers [the elite of
line units of the time] and Light Infantry marched to Concord,
Massachusetts, by way of Lexington with the goal of seizing the firearms
and powder of the militia and arresting the political leaders of the
Patriot movement. At Lexington there was an exchange of fire with the
local militia under Captain John Parker. The losses were almost all on
the militia side, and the British marched on. And no, we were not
“Americans” at that point.

Later that day,
the British column arrived at the village of Concord, and began to
search for the items and persons that they were after. The local militia
had withdrawn from the village proper knowing that they could not stand
against the British force. In the course of the search, the village
meeting house was accidentally set afire, and the militia believed that
the British were burning their homes and moved back towards the village.
The way was blocked by troops from the British 4th and 10th Regiments
of Foot at Old North Bridge. The militia, believing their homes and
families were under attack, broke the British position, and began the
rout of the British. But no, we were not “Americans” yet.

The British
column began its withdrawal to Boston, marching down the road they had
advanced up. About a mile from Concord there was a road intersection,
and a house known as Meriam House, and the crossroads there was known as
Meriam’s Corner.

At that exact point, at that exact time; we changed. We were no longer British subjects. We were a “we”. We were Americans.

For as the
column reached the crossroads, from the north the Militia companies of
the villages of Reading and Billerica arrived. From the south, the
Militia companies of the villages of Framingham and Sudbury arrived. And
they engaged the British and bled them all the way back to Charlestown.
And they were joined by the Militia companies of Woburn, and Lexington,
and Danvers, and Brookline, and Salem and uncounted numbers of free
farmers who instinctively knew who “we” were and were willing to defend
us all.

The actions at
Concord and Lexington themselves, while historic and praiseworthy, were
actions of self-defense. They were directly attacked and they fought
back. Just as you defend your homes, wives, and children from armed
intruders in the night; they protected their own.

But at Meriam’s
Corner …. The villages who sent their Militia companies were not
attacked or threatened. They would have lost nothing if they would have
stayed home. But they came. And they fought. They killed and they died.
Because those troops were not “their” troops anymore and they were
attacking “their” people. The government and King which had sent those
troops was no longer “their” government and King, but was an enemy come
to attack their homes, wives, and families. WE were Americans. THEY were
British. And THEY no longer had any legitimate right to rule or to
threaten US.

Will we go
quietly in submission to orders, in service of statements we know to be
lies? Will we “burn later” regretting our submission? Will we prove to
be Americans or will we cower, listening for the footsteps of the
coercive organs of the State?

It is a
decision only we can make, and only at the time and place it presents
itself to us. Are the consequences of resistance worse than the
consequences of submission? What will we do, not when they come for us;
but when they come for our neighbor, for the guy a dozen blocks over,
for the guy across town?

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.